Residual stress and its role in failure

PJ Withers - Reports on progress in physics, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
Our safety, comfort and peace of mind are heavily dependent upon our capability to prevent,
predict or postpone the failure of components and structures on the basis of sound physical …

Recent advances on electromigration in very-large-scale-integration of interconnects

KN Tu - Journal of applied physics, 2003 - pubs.aip.org
Today, the price of building a factory to produce submicron size electronic devices on 300
mm Si wafers is over billions of dollars. In processing a 300 mm Si wafer, over half of the …

Three-dimensional X-ray structural microscopy with submicrometre resolution

BC Larson, W Yang, GE Ice, JD Budai, JZ Tischler - Nature, 2002 - nature.com
Advanced materials and processing techniques are based largely on the generation and
control of non-homogeneous microstructures, such as precipitates and grain boundaries. X …

Quantitative speciation of heavy metals in soils and sediments by synchrotron X-ray techniques

A Manceau, MA Marcus… - Reviews in mineralogy …, 2002 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Human societies have, in all ages, modified the original form of metals and metalloids in
their living environment for their survival and technical development. In many cases, these …

A review of RedOx cycling of solid oxide fuel cells anode

A Faes, A Hessler-Wyser, A Zryd, J Van Herle - Membranes, 2012 - mdpi.com
Solid oxide fuel cells are able to convert fuels, including hydrocarbons, to electricity with an
unbeatable efficiency even for small systems. One of the main limitations for long-term …

Scanning X-ray microdiffraction with submicrometer white beam for strain/stress and orientation mapping in thin films

N Tamura, AA MacDowell, R Spolenak… - Journal of synchrotron …, 2003 - scripts.iucr.org
Scanning X-ray microdiffraction (µSXRD) combines the use of high-brilliance synchrotron
sources with the latest achromatic X-ray focusing optics and fast large-area two-dimensional …

Determining grain resolved stresses in polycrystalline materials using three-dimensional X-ray diffraction

J Oddershede, S Schmidt, HF Poulsen… - Journal of Applied …, 2010 - journals.iucr.org
An algorithm is presented for characterization of the grain resolved (type II) stress states in a
polycrystalline sample based on monochromatic X-ray diffraction data. The algorithm is a …

Beamline 10.3. 2 at ALS: a hard X-ray microprobe for environmental and materials sciences

MA Marcus, AA MacDowell, R Celestre… - Journal of …, 2004 - journals.iucr.org
Beamline 10.3. 2 at the ALS is a bend-magnet line designed mostly for work on
environmental problems involving heavy-metal speciation and location. It offers a unique …

Coupling between experimental measurements and polycrystal finite element calculations for micromechanical study of metallic materials

E Heripre, M Dexet, J Crepin, L Gélébart, A Roos… - International Journal of …, 2007 - Elsevier
This paper presents a methodology for multiscale coupling between the morphology and
texture of a microstructure as has been characterised experimentally, and the results of …

An overview of synchrotron radiation applications to low temperature geochemistry and environmental science

GE Brown Jr, NC Sturchio - Reviews in Mineralogy and …, 2002 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The availability of synchrotron radiation (SR) to the scientific community has literally
revolutionized the way X-ray science is done in many disciplines, including low temperature …